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Bloomberg’s Hit Job on Venezuela – and Me By Michael Hudson
I just had a disastrous and embarrassing interaction with Bloomberg, and feel that I was ambushed and sandbagged by having my comments taken out of context in a hit piece Bloomberg’s journalists wrote on Venezuela – evidently trying to distort my own views in a two-for-one job. Continue reading
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Video: 'Game Over' By Michael Hudson
Michael Hudson talks about the ‘bubble economy’ and ‘quantative easing’. Continue reading
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Video: ‘Game Over’ By Michael Hudson
Michael Hudson talks about the ‘bubble economy’ and ‘quantative easing’. Continue reading
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Audio: Economic Policy Deception By Michael Hudson
Another in the series of interviews on the Renegade Economists radio show (Australia), a wide ranging analysis of the advantages to wealth that money printing and poor tax policy produce. Topics include land and housing policy, German gold repatriation, Occupy, Bradley Manning, Iran, Obama and Kruegar. Continue reading
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Video: 2013 – the stage is set: Michael Hudson
Hudson on the Thom Hartmann Program talking about the economy in the year ahead. Continue reading
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America’s Deceptive 2012 Fiscal Cliff By Michael Hudson
When World War I broke out in August 1914, economists on both sides forecast that hostilities could not last more than about six months. Wars had grown so expensive that governments quickly would run out of money. It seemed that if Germany could not defeat France by springtime, the Allied and Central Powers would run… Continue reading
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Book Review: Reality economics By Michael Hudson
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” And if they would destroy economies, they first create a wealthy class on top, and let human nature do the rest. The acquisition of power soon leads to its abuse, to economic and social hubris. By seeking to protect its gains, perpetuate itself and make its… Continue reading
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How Neoliberal Tax and Financial Policy Impoverishes Russia – Needlessly By Michael Hudson
Russian poverty is unnecessary. Like all poverty in today’s high-productivity age, it is the result of bad policy. There is no technological need for it, nor is Russia lacking in a full spectrum of natural resources and economic potential. So future historians no doubt will puzzle over how the nation was convinced to de-industrialize its… Continue reading
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Video: The Inside Man By Michael Hudson
The word is out: Treasury Secretary Geithner is the inside man for Wall St according to an explosive new book. The second half of this Keiser Report covers this latest machination in the world of financial crime. Continue reading
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Video: The Greek Experiment By Michael Hudson
Michael Hudson: Greek crisis used to find out how far finance can drive down wages and privatize Continue reading
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Video: Degredation of Democracy By Michael Hudson
Michael appears on Capital Account to discuss his two most recent articles, Democracy & Debt and Europe’s Transition from Social Democracy to Oligarchy. Continue reading
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Europe’s Transition From Social Democracy to Oligarchy By Michael Hudson
The easiest way to understand Europe’s financial crisis is to look at the solutions being proposed to resolve it. They are a banker’s dream, a grab bag of giveaways that few voters would be likely to approve in a democratic referendum. Continue reading
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Video: Senate Bill Threatens Currency War with China
Michael Hudson: Senate proposal based on junk economics and is illegal under international law Continue reading
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Video: Occupy Wall St. to a Bank in the Public Interest By MIchael Hudson
Michael Hudson: A public option in banking will be a structural answer to the power of finance Continue reading
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Why Iceland Voted ‘No” to the Diktats of the Creditor Banks
About 75% of Iceland’s voters turned out on Saturday to reject the Social Democratic-Green government’s proposal to pay $5.2 billion to the British and Dutch bank insurance agencies for the Landsbanki-Icesave collapse. Every one of Iceland’s six electoral districts voted in the ‘No’ column – by a national margin of 60% (down from 93% in… Continue reading
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Inquiry Doesn’t Call Crisis Systemic Fraud
Michael Hudson: Financial Crisis Inquiry Report fails to call for criminal prosecutions against Wall Street Continue reading
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The Spectre Haunting Europe: Debt Defaults, Austerity, and Death of the “Social Europe” Model By Prof Michael Hudson and Prof. Jeffrey Sommers
Only a year ago it was recognized that decades of neoliberalism had crashed the U.S. and several European economies. Years of deregulation, speculation and lack of investment in the real economy had left them with rising inequality and little consumer demand, except for what was financed by running up debt. But the financial press and… Continue reading
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Why Government is More Afraid of Debt than Depression
Michael Hudson: Deficit Hawks Want a One Two Punch Against the Economy Continue reading
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WikiLeaks News Roundup 11 December, 2010
11 December, 2010 — creative-i.info 11 December, 2010 Former WikiLeaks Staff Open New Whistle-Blower Leak Service `OpenLeaks` A conspiracy to silence? By William Bowles Wikileaks Cablegate: Israel let off the hook on nuclear weapons, Arabs fooled WikiLeaks demos planned in Spain and Latin America If We Lose our Internet Freedoms Because of Wikileaks, You Should Continue reading
The New Dark Age 